Life

Collins was an intern, working up to research assistant, and then assistant director, of Public television documentaries, from 1997-2003.

She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Iowa Writers' Workshop

The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, is a highly regarded graduate-level creative writing program in the United States...

 where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow.

In Fall 2005, she read at Reading Between A&B, in New York, and in the Summer of 2006, taught a fiction workshop in Wellington, New Zealand, at Victoria University

Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria University of Wellington was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a former constituent college of the University of New Zealand. It is particularly well known for its programmes in law, the humanities, and some scientific disciplines, but offers a broad range of other courses...

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She lives in Denver, where she is pursuing a Ph.D. in poetry.

Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, A Public Space, and Gutcult, where she is an editor.

Awards

• 2008 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
• 2008 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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  ' (AAAS) Poetry Prize
• 2008 May Sarton Prize

Publications

Her published poetry includes:

Some of Collins' work has been published in a book:

Criticism

In the foreword, Louise Glück describes the poetry as:

savage, desolate, brutally ironic . . . a book of astonishing originality and intensity, unprecedented, unrepeatable.